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old good used video card

Ickie

Ickie

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for weeks my nvidia geforce 7800 GTX video card has been going out and it smells like burnt candy, anyone have a good one, that could help me out of this jam.
 
All I've got is my 'emergency' ATI x-300 256Mb. Price would be right but it's a pretty big step back.
 
Ickie said:
question my board is a pci-e 1.o
will a 2.0 run on it?
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"PCIe 2.0 dictates twice the throughput of 1.1. 2.0 is forwards and backwards compatible: meaning you can run 1.0/1.1 devices in a 2.0 slot, and also run 2.0 compliant devices in a 1.0/1.1 slot."
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/246217-30-pcie-pcie

Haven't found a reference yet for BIOS/driver issues
 
EVGA GeForce 9400 GT Video Card - 1GB DDR2, PCI Express 2.0
i just bought this one $49.99
 
I run vista and the 7800 would only work with ms drivers, i never could get nvidia drivers to work from day 1

for about 3 weeks I have been working the butt off on this computer and daily the blue screen of death and this awful smell.

well today I had the blue screen 3 times, heck i have had the side cover off for 2 weeks and this card is cooking.
I hope I get this new card by early next week, 3 days the website says.
 
Ickie said:
question my board is a pci-e 1.o
will a 2.0 run on it?
Click to expand...

It should work ok, but you will not get the full potential out of a PCIe 2.0 card when it's plugged into a 1.0 slot. As previously posted, the 1.0 slot does not have the data transfer capability of the 2.0 slot.
 
at this time, I am venturing into a very large project and do not have the time to deal with vista and a motherboard swap and Microsoft. I do not want to lose my data.
 
Ickie, I've looked and I've only got a GF5600 Ultra 256mb card sitting here for a spare. I wish it could help you out mate.
 
Hi all,
Checked my box of bits.only got 3 agp cards and 2 pci graphics card spare.
Sorry cannot be of any more help.

Buddha13
 
last night i bought a new card $49.99
EVGA GeForce 9400 GT Video Card - 1GB DDR2, PCI Express 2.0
 
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I kind of doubt you will be happy with a 9400GT. The 9400 is really intended for web surfing and watching DVD movies, not for any graphics intensive games or sims.
 
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